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TraxAuth

TraxAuth is a web-based, stand-alone user account registration, management and maintenance system, written in Python. This project was started in order to provide the codeTRAX users with a way to register and manage their accounts. TraxAuth is being co-developed by CodeTRAX.org and G-Loaded.eu and is released under the terms of the Apache License version 2. [...]

Best Practices of Software Licensing

I am nowhere near being an authority on software licensing. However, the recent release of GPLv3 with all the online discussions, all the attempts to exploit statements of the old version 2 of the license in order to achieve automatic license renewal for all the projects that were released under GPLv2 made me re-evaluate, not [...]

Hard disk upgrade on an old motherboard

Hardware either works or does not work. Two pieces of hardware are either compatible or icompatible. This is the rule. However, when the incompatibility-gap between the two pieces of hardware is small, there is almost always a way to make these two pieces work together as if they were fully compatible. This generally involves the [...]

Transifex – How to make progress

Taken from the project homepage: Transifex is a web-system that facilitates the process of submitting translations in various source control management systems (SCMs). This project caught my attention right after I read its description, so I would like to write a few words as a non-computer-scientist to its lead developer:

rtorstat – a simple rTorrent status web page generator

rtorstat is a simple web page generator, written in Python, which shows status information about the rTorrent bittorrent client. This makes it possible to quickly have an overview of your torrent list from a remote location, without having to log into the remote machine that actually runs rTorrent.

Tab Links extension for the Epiphany browser

If your web browser of choice is Epiphany and you always wanted to copy all of the open tabs’ links to the clipboard in various formats with one click of the mouse, then this plugin might be what you were looking for…

Error when using old run/bin installers under Linux

I guess that every single *nix user, at least once, has run across files with the *.run or *.bin extensions. These scripts are usually software installers and are widely used to distribute, but not limited to, proprietary software to the Unix world. Examples are the popular NVidia or ATI display drivers for Linux and other [...]

Application Testing: Zero Free Space

I should clarify from the beginning that this is not a technical article containing any kind of debugging information – I don’t have the knowledge anyway – or any other type of proof that indicates that some commonly used applications have bugs. This is just about some observations, or better an unofficial user report, of “what went wrong when I run out of free space“.

dircproxy IRC Proxy

Yesterday, I wrote about my need to be always connected to an IRC channel in order to keep a log of the chat even when I don’t follow the conversation in real-time. Under the given circumstances and not taking into account the possibility to keep my desktop machine always on, so XChat can log everything, [...]

WordPress Meta Tags plugin stable release

I am glad to announce that I have released the first stable version (v1.0) of my Add-Meta-Tags plugin for WordPress.